Guide to Form 17 – Application lodgement form
Document Required – Form 17
Land Registry – Frequently Asked Questions
Guidelines for Applications for Duplicate Vesting Certificates and Amendments to Vesting Certificates
Duplicate Vesting Certificate(s) Amendments to Vesting Certificate(s)
LR Application for Paperless Copy Instruments – Facility for Solicitors only
GR Form Claim – Claim for (a share of) purchase money
GR Affidavit – Lost Vesting Certificates
GR Identification Form
Personal Applicant’s Identification Form (ID Form)
LR Form 6 – Registration where title is based on possession of registered land only
Application for registration where title is based on possession of registered land only (Rule 45 and Section 49)
LR Form 18 – Notice to registered owner of application by personal applicant
Notice to registered owner of application by personal applicant (Rule 11(4)(b),(c)
LR Rule 16 – Documents to accompany application for registration of ownership of leasehold interests
(1) An application by the original lessee for registration with good leasehold title of the ownership of a leasehold interest, to which Rule...
LR Rule 27 – Notice of statutory restrictions
Where, on an application for the first registration of the ownership of property, it appears that the property is subject to restrictive or...
LR Rule 31 – Time for objection and form of notice on cautioner
The time to be stated in the notice to be served on a cautioner under Section 96 of the Act, within which he/she...
LR Rule 32 – Application where ownership registered 30 years
Where the ownership of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts has been registered for 30 years, the Authority may convert a possessory...
LR Rule 33 – Application where ownership registered 12 years under transfer for value
Where the ownership of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts has been registered for over 12 years, and an applicant for the...
LR Rule 35 – Other applications for conversion of possessory title
(1) Every other application for the conversion of a possessory title into an absolute title in the case of property purchased under the...
LR Rule 36 – Examination of title to interests protected by registration with a possessory title
(1) In applications under Rule 35, the title shall be examined by or under the supervision of the Authority, who may extend or...
LR Rule 39 – Application for conversion of qualified title
An application to convert a qualified title into an absolute or good leasehold title shall be made in writing and shall be...
LR Rule 41 – How burdens ascertained entered on conversion
On conversion of a possessory or qualified title, consequential on an examination of title under these Rules- (a) a burden ascertained to affect...
LR Rule 43 – Where deeds are deposited to create a lien
(1) Where, on an application for conversion of a possessory or qualified title, a person who claims a lien by way of equitable...
LR Rule 45 – Title to registered property acquired by possession
Pursuant to Section 49 of the Act, any person claiming to have acquired a title by possession to registered property may apply...
LR Rule 46 – Acquisition of easements and profits by prescription
(1) Pursuant to section 49A of the Act, any person claiming to be entitled to an easement or profit à prendre by...
LR Rule 48 – First registration of tenants in common
Where it appears to the Authority from an examination of title that two or more persons are entitled to property as tenants in...
LR Rule 49 – First registration of trustee owner
Where an applicant for registration as owner or the registered owner, as the case may be, is a trustee, he/she may have entered...
LR Rule 52 – Form of instruments
LR Rule 53 – Applications or instruments in improper form
If it appears to the Authority that any application or instrument is improper in form or in substance or is not clearly expressed...
LR Rule 54 – Evidence of execution of instruments
The execution of every application except an application by a solicitor, and of every instrument shall be attested by a witness. The execution...
LR Rule 55 – Evidence of execution of instrument by attorney
Where an application or instrument is executed by attorney, the power of attorney, or a certified copy made pursuant to Section 21 of...
LR Rule 56 – Identification of part of registered property transferred
(1) An instrument dealing with part of the property in a folio of the register shall be accompanied by an application map which...
LR Rule 57 – Presentation of dealing for registration
(1) Applications for registration may be sent, delivered or transmitted to such office(s) or address(es) of the Authority as it may designate. (2)...
LR Rule 61 – Amendment of instrument and priority of amended instrument
(1) Where any alteration is required in an instrument after it has been received for registration, it may, if the Authority permits, be...
LR Rule 62 – Stamp certificate issued by Revenue Commissioners
(1) Where a question arises in relation to a stamp certificate issued by the Revenue Commissioners and the solicitor for the applicant gives...
LR Rule 63 – Registration of a tenant in common
An application for registration as owner by a person claiming as tenant in common of an undivided share in property shall state the...
LR Rule 64 – Registration of trustee owner
Where an applicant for registration is a trustee, he/she may have entered in the register on the completion of the registration, an inhibition...
LR Rule 65 – Application by registered owner for amendment
An application by the registered owner for the amendment of his/her name or address or description in the register shall be in Form...
LR Rule 66 – Application for registration of trustees
An application for registration of trustees who are owners of registered land by virtue of the Act of 2009 shall be in Form...
LR Rule 68 – Form of lease
A lease of registered land shall be in Form 31.
LR Rule 69 – Registration of transferee who is a trustee
Where a transfer is made to a transferee who is a trustee of the property transferred, he/she may have entered in the register...
LR Rule 70 – Registration under a transfer or vesting order on sale in execution of order of court
(1) A transfer on sale by a registered owner (or by his/her personal representative or by a person appointed in that behalf by...
LR Rule 71 – Effect of covenant to pay rent or indemnify may be noted in register
On a transfer of property subject to an existing rent or to a burden appearing in the register, a covenant in the transfer...
LR Rule 72 – Registration of purchaser from personal representative of owner discharged from judgment mortgage on interest of beneficiary
(1) On an application for registration of a purchaser as owner under a transfer on sale from the personal representative of a full...
LR Rule 73 – Registration under grant reserving rent
A transfer of freehold property by a grant in perpetuity reserving a rent shall be given effect to by registering the grantee as...
LR Rule 74 – Registration of companies
(1) A company within the meaning of the Companies Acts that applies for registration under a transfer shall produce a certificate by the...
LR Rule 75 – Registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
(1) Where, in a case to which Section 60 of the Act applies, the ownership of registered property passes to another person under...
LR Rule 76 – Notice of application for registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
(1) The notice of an application for registration in defeasance of the estate or interest of a registered owner referred to in Section...
LR Rule 77 – Cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
(1) On the registration of an owner under Section 60 of the Act, other than as provided by Rule 70, the following registered...
LR Rule 78 – Notice of cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
The Authority shall serve notice in Form 28 on the registered owner (if any) of burdens and notices which are to be cancelled...
LR Rule 79 – Registration of transfer under power of sale
(1) On the registration of a transfer under a power of sale under Section 62(9) of the Act notice shall be served in...
LR Rule 80 – Registration of trustees or assignees of bankrupt owner and re-registration of the owner
(1) The assignees in bankruptcy of a registered owner who has been adjudicated a bankrupt may be registered as owners in his/her place,...
LR Rule 81 – Registration of transferee of local authority under statute
On the registration of a transferee as owner under a transfer by a local authority in exercise of its powers under statute, no...
LR Rule 82 – Registration of local authority under statute
Registration of a local authority as owner of property that has vested in it under statute in defeasance of the estate or interest...
LR Rule 83 – Registration of dispositions of recorded property
(1) Every application for registration under a disposition or transmission of recorded property transferred to and entered in a register under the Act...
LR Rule 84 – Registration of new trustee of friendly society
(1) The name of a new trustee of a Friendly Society or of a branch thereof appointed pursuant to Section 25(2) of the...
LR Rule 85 – Application for registration where registered owner died prior to 1st June, 1959
(1) On the death prior to 1st June, 1959 of a sole registered owner of property, or the survivor of several registered owners...
LR Rule 87 – Transfer by personal representative(s) on death testate to person entitled
(1) A transfer of property to a person who claims to be by law entitled to the property of a deceased registered full...
LR Rule 88 – Application for registration by a person, other than the personal representative(s) entitled on intestacy
(1) An application for registration as owner by a person who claims to be by law entitled to property of an intestate registered...
LR Rule 89 – Application for registration by personal representative entitled on intestacy
(1) An application for registration as owner by a personal representative who claims to be entitled to property of an intestate registered full...
LR Rule 90 – Application for registration on death of person entitled but not registered as owner
Where a person dies entitled to be registered as owner of property, but not registered as owner, in the case of a death...
LR Rule 91 – Transmission on death of owner of charge or other burden
On the death of the registered owner of a charge or other burden, an application for registration as owner by a person claiming...
LR Rule 92 – Note of death of registered owner
On the death testate or intestate of a registered owner of property who is not registered as a limited owner or as a...
LR Rule 93 – Application for registration of successor of limited owner
(1) On the determination of the estate or interest of a limited owner, an application for registration by a person claiming under the...
LR Rule 94 – Application for registration by survivor or survivors of joint tenants
(1) Where one of two or more persons registered as joint tenants dies, the surviving joint tenant or tenants shall on application be...
LR Rule 95 – Registration pursuant to court order
An application for registration pursuant to an order of the court shall be made by lodging in the Registry an official copy of...
LR Rule 96 – The assent to registration of burdens that is to be given by persons other than the owner
(1) Pursuant to Section 69(2) of the Act, it is hereby prescribed that the concurrence of the under-mentioned persons shall be accepted in...
LR Rule 97 – How assent to registration of burden is to be given
(1) The concurrence of a person (other than the Authority) authorised to concur in the registration of a burden shall be given by...
LR Rule 98 – How burden may be entered
Where an instrument or a copy thereof authorised by these Rules is filed in the Registry and the instrument creates, or assents to...
LR Rule 99 – Note in register where statutory priority for burden claimed
(1) An applicant who applies for registration of a burden that he/she claims has priority over other burdens by virtue of a statute...
LR Rule 100 – Instrument creating two or more burdens and priority thereof
Where an instrument lodged for registration creates two or more burdens on the property registered, the priority in which the burdens are to...
LR Rule 101 – Evidence on which a burden may be cancelled or modified
(1) On the application of any person interested in a registered burden or in the property on which it is registered, the Authority...
LR Rule 102 – Application for cancellation of charge by electronic means
An application for the cancellation of the entry of a charge may be made to the Authority by electronic means where the Authority...
LR Rule 103 – Application for cancellation of Property Adjustment Order
An application for cancellation of a Property Adjustment Order pursuant to Section 9 or 18 of the Family Law Act, 1995 or Section...
LR Rule 104 – Where burden may be cancelled as extinguished
Where the registered owner of a burden becomes the registered owner of the property on which it is a burden, the Authority may...
LR Rule 105 – Forms of charge, transfer of charge and release
A charge for the payment of money, and a transfer and release thereof, shall be made by instruments in such one of Forms...
LR Rule 106 – Registration of charge created by a company
Where, on the registration of a charge created by a company within the meaning of the Companies Acts or on the registration of...
LR Rule 107 – Crystallised charge as burden
(1) Pursuant to Section 69(1)(s) of the Act, it is hereby prescribed that a crystallised charge on the land of a company arising...
LR Rule 108 – Sub-charges
(1) The registered owner of a charge may charge it in the same manner as the registered owner of land may charge his/her...
LR Rule 109 – Dealing with mortgage created prior to first registration where registered
(1) Where a mortgage created prior to the first registration of property is entered in the register, the Authority may, on the application...
LR Rule 110 – Registration of judgment mortgage
(1) Application for registration of a judgment mortgage as a burden on registered property pursuant to Section 116 of the Act of 2009...
LR Rule 110A – Registration of judgement mortgage
(1) Application for registration of a judgement mortgage as a burden on registered property in execution of a judgement for the payment of...
LR Rule 111 – Evidence on registration of judgment mortgage
An application for registration of a judgment mortgage shall contain a statement that to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief, the...
LR Rule 112 – Notice of registration of judgment mortgage
(1) Notice of the registration of a judgment mortgage in the Registry shall be sent by the Authority to the registered owner of...
LR Rule 116 – Power to charge and trust to secure money
(1) A trust for securing money and a power to charge or other power vested in any person virtute officii shall be registered...
LR Rule 117 – Lien for unpaid purchase money
(1) An application for registration of a lien for unpaid purchase money shall be made in writing signed by the vendor or his/her...
LR Rule 118 – Judgement or order of court
An application for the registration of a judgement or order of a court as a burden shall be made in writing signed by...
LR Rule 121 – Easement or profit à prendre
(1) Every application for the registration of an easement or profit à prendre as a burden shall be accompanied by an application map...
LR Rule 123 – Warning notice to cautioner
(1) Whenever – (a) an application in writing for the discharge of a caution is made by the registered owner of the property...
LR Rule 124 – Application by registered owner for discharge of caution
An application by a registered owner for the discharge of a caution shall state the grounds of his/her application, as, for instance, that...
LR Rule 127 – Lapse of caution
Where the warning notice required by a caution has been given in respect of the whole of the property to which it relates...
LR Rule 128 – Form of inhibition
(1) An inhibition for the protection of an unregistered right or interest may be in the terms of one of the clauses in...
LR Rule 130 – Application for inhibition where there is no consent
(1) An application to the Authority for the entry of an inhibition, other than one the entry of which is authorised on the...
LR Rule 132 – Procedure on objection to inhibition
(1) Any person to whom notice of an application for an inhibition is sent may apply to the Authority, within the time stated,...
LR Rule 133 – Modification or discharge of registered inhibition
(1) Any person to whom notice of an application for an inhibition is sent may apply to the Authority, within the time stated,...
LR Rule 134 – Application in anticipation of dealing inhibited without Authority’s order or approval
(1) An application may be made to the Authority in anticipation of an intended dealing with property subject to an inhibition in the register...
LR Rule 136 – Inhibition under order of court
An entry of an inhibition under an order of a court shall state that it is made pursuant to that order.
LR Rule 138 – Entry of notice of exemption from certain burdens under Section 72(2) of the Act
Notice of the exemption of specified property from any former crown rent, quit rent, ecclesiastical tithe rentcharge, payment in lieu of tithe or...
LR Rule 139 – Entry of conclusiveness of a boundary of property
Every entry in the register of the conclusiveness of a boundary shall be made by stating therein the physical boundary of the property...
LR Rule 140 – Entry of boundary ascertained by Land Judge’s conveyance
A boundary defined by one of the instruments specified in Section 86 of the Act shall not be entered in the register as...
LR Rule 141 – Entry of boundary by agreement
(1) An application by owners of adjoining property for entry in the register of the boundary between their property, or part of it,...
LR Rule 142 – Settlement of boundary on transfer
The boundary between registered property transferred by a registered owner and other registered property of which he/she is the registered owner may be...
LR Rule 143 – Removal of description of infancy
The description of a registered owner of property as an infant or minor shall be removed from the register on an application in...
LR Rule 144 – Entry in register on conversion of a registered renewable lease
On production in the Registry of a grant in perpetuity of unregistered property made under the provisions of any enactment other than the...
LR Rule 145 – Limited Ownership
Where property is registered in the name of a limited owner or an infant or minor, an entry in Form 85 may...
LR Rule 146 – Form of Registry maps
(1) Registry maps shall be maintained in paper form or in electronic form, or partly in one form and partly in the other...
LR Rule 147 – Contents of Registry maps
(1) There shall be shown on the appropriate registry maps- (a) a plan or plans of the property described in each...
LR Rule 148 – Persons who may represent minors
(1) A minor may be represented for all or any of the purposes of the Act by his/her guardian (if any)...
LR Rule 149 – Appointment of person to represent a minor
(1) Where there is no person authorised by the foregoing rule to represent a minor or where someone other than such person...
LR Rule 154 – Endorsement of documents delivered
No original deed under which property or a disposition of property has been registered shall be delivered from the Registry until an endorsement...
LR Rule 155 – Delivery of documents to solicitor for production in court or for taxation purposes
The Authority may deliver to the solicitor for the registered owner of property an instrument dealing with the property, except an instrument of...
LR Rule 156 – Transmission of documents to court
The Authority may transmit a document filed in the Registry to a County Registrar for production in court on the hearing of a...
LR Rule 157 – Application for transmission of document to a County Registrar
(1) An application for transmission of a document to a County Registrar shall be in Form 82 and shall be lodged in duplicate....
LR Rule 158 – County Registrar custodian of document transmitted
(1) The County Registrar shall hold any document transmitted to him/her under the foregoing rule solely for its production on the hearing of...
LR Rule 159 – Inspection of filed documents and obtaining copies thereof
(1) The registered owner of property and any person authorised by such owner, or by an order of the court or by these...
LR Rule 167 – Evidence in proceedings
Evidence in any proceeding in the Registry may be given by affidavit or, except where the Act prescribes an affidavit, by statutory declaration,...
LR Rule 168 – Affidavits and statutory declarations in proceedings
(1) An affidavit or statutory declaration for the purpose of any proceeding in the Registry may be sworn or taken before the Authority,...
LR Rule 169 – Form of notices issued
(1) Every notice issued from or sent by the Registry (except notices of the receipt of instruments, applications, completion of registration or formal...
LR Rule 179 – Recording of decisions of Authority
(1) Every decision of the Authority refusing to enter an ownership, burden, notice or other entry applied for in a register shall be...
LR Rule 180 – Procedure on Appeals to Court
Appeals to Court under Section 19(1) of the Act may be made – (a) In the case of an appeal to the High...
LR Rule 181 – Reference of questions to court
(1) An order of the Authority referring a question of law or fact to the court under Section 19(2) of the Act or...
LR Rule 185 – Contents of application for compensation
Every application for compensation shall be signed by the claimant or his/her solicitor and shall contain – (a) particulars of the property for...